The Goblin Quote-Tweet Heard 'Round fractal

What follows about fractal is a goblin's account, which means most of it is accurate, some of it is invented, and the parts that matter most are stolen from someone else.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin fractal and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Echoes of manifesto in the Goblin Archive

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking manifesto. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Footnotes Concerning dossier

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the dossier-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared fractal a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.